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    The Sintra tramway is a seasonal narrow gauge tourist tram line in Portugal. It links the town of Sintra with Praia das Maçãs [pt], passing through Colares...
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    Trams in Portugal have generally been traditional electric cars in large cities such as Lisbon, Porto and Sintra. Portuguese tram routes are typically...
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    current tram/streetcar (including heritage trams/heritage streetcars), or light rail systems as part of their regular public transit systems. In other words...
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  • systems in Europe List of tram and light rail transit systems List of metro systems "Eléctrico de Sintra official page". www.cm-sintra.pt (in Portuguese)...
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    transportation. Many early trams were horse-drawn, but electric trams followed. By the mid-1910s, the urban population were fully accustomed to trams as a fashionable...
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    have operating heritage trams. In Budapest heritage trams first operated in 1987. Its fleet contains quite a few vehicles (trams, buses, trolleybuses, even...
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    The following is a list of tram/streetcar (including heritage trams/heritage streetcars), or light rail systems with their track length, track gauge, electrification...
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    Linha de Sintra is a railway line that connects the stations of Rossio and Sintra, Portugal. and is operated by Comboios de Portugal. The railway, one...
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    Rua Augusta (São Paulo) (category Streets in São Paulo)
    very steep, to install donkey-pulled trams, in 1890. In 1891, with the inauguration of electric lights, the trams were powered by electricity. Between...
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    Germany in their colonies. In Europe, large metre-gauge networks remain in use in Switzerland, Spain and many European towns with urban trams, but most...
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    Lisbon (redirect from Transport in Lisbon)
    Pages - Lisbon (Portugal) Trams". Archived from the original on 15 May 2011. Retrieved 10 March 2011. Details of Lisbon's trams, from Luso Pages Pincha...
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    J. G. Brill Company (category Tram manufacturers)
    ordered in 1908 but never used. Scale models of the original cars were used to derive the design. Frankfort and Cincinnati Model 55 Rail Car List of tram builders...
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    Xochimilco Light Rail (category Light rail in Mexico)
    the Concarril cars, this work being undertaken by local firm Sintra S.A. The three "Sintra" cars, as they were known, the fleet's last to use PCC-type...
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    Found in 1364 by Italian mariners under the service of Prince Henry The Navigator, it was first noted by Portuguese navigator Diogo Gomes de Sintra in 1438...
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    Lisbon Metro (category Transport in Lisbon)
    July 2012. "Ligação do metro de Lisboa à Linha de Sintra é inaugurada na quarta". Notícias ao Minuto (in Portuguese). 11 April 2016. Neves, Sofia (14 June...
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    Alfa Pendular (category High-speed rail in Portugal)
    among others at speeds of up to 220 km/h (135 mph). The trains were assembled in Portugal by ADtranz at the former Sorefame works at Amadora, based on contracting...
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    the former British settlement of Penang, now part of Malaysia. Most streets in the city were built and named during the colonial era, and the historic English...
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    Jorge, royal residence until the early 16th century with views of the city. In the slopes of Alfama there are other terraces (miradouros) from which to see...
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  • Teixeira Museu De Arte Moderna Museu do Ar Museu Ferreira de Castro NewsMuseum Sintra Natural History Museum Casa Museu Afonso Lopes Vieira Glass Museum of Marinha...
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    Praça do Comércio (category Squares in Lisbon)
    having two main directions of travel, west and south. The northern side tram leads to the district of Belem and the southern port is a ferry that goes...
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    Lisbon Metro Blue Line (category Railway stations opened in 1959)
    E.P.E. (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2017-07-18. "Cronologia - Metropolitano de Lisboa, E.P.E." Metropolitano de Lisboa, E.P.E. (in European Portuguese)...
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    Downhill mountain biking (category Sports originating in the United States)
    of the WorldCup racers to the country. Places like Lousã, Tarouca, and Sintra offer a large mixture of single tracks and Downhill circuits.[citation needed]...
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    located in the historic center of Lisbon, east of Alcântara, north of Estrela, west of Santo António, and south of Campolide. The population in 2011 was...
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    Comboios de Portugal (category Companies based in Lisbon)
    station (train/ferry/metro/tram/bus) Oriente - for trains to the north and to the Algarve Rossio - for local trains to Sintra Santa Apolónia - terminus...
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    so-called Carros Americanos (horse-drawn trams) in 1870; in 1901 it was affected by the construction of the tram line that operated between Terreiro do...
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    History of Lisbon (category Histories of cities in Portugal)
    city in 851, as did Alfonso VI of León in 1093 when al-Mutawakkil of Badajoz surrendered al-Us̲h̲būna, S̲h̲antarīn (Santarém), and S̲h̲intra (Sintra) to...
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    Santa Justa Lift (category Buildings and structures in Lisbon)
    transferring the Elevator definitively into the city's historical tram network. In July 2002, the Santa Justa Elevator celebrated its first centenary;...
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    extinguished in 1885. The creation of the military road and Lisbon-Sintra railway line in 1885; the opening of the electric trams, in 1929, then bus lines in 1985...
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    interchanges on the belt line within Lisbon as well as on the Sintra line, where Sintra line trains connect with Azambuja line trains. Kirkby railway...
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  • Offset agreement (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from June 2019)
    meeting on offset took place in 2004 in Sintra, Portugal; then in Athens, Greece (2006); the third in Seville, Spain, in 2008. GOCA and DIOA hold both...
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